Re: Gpg 1.4 Renato

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:50:51 +0200

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 02:01:20PM -0700, Rat Bag via Gnupg-users wrote:
[snip]
> All that is missing is "1.4 Renato". The work required to
> exorcise the 2.x gumbo of (to them) useless features and
> cut down WOT flotsam to size is not at all extraordinary.
> And no, I am not (as was suggested above) "literally trying
> to put the devs on a guilt trip..."; (if this is how I came
> across, I apologize unreservedly). I am just politely asking,
> and suggesting a *growing* set of users would benefit. It
> would be entirely possible to take 1.4 codebase, clean up a
> few things, backport some (very few) fundamentals and Gpg 1.4
> would leave the life-support and be, indeed, "re-born".

You do realize that after a complete redesign of the way
the program works (and, yeah, also splitting out parts of its
functionality into different processes), and a complete
redesign of the way the program keeps its data structures in
memory, and a complete redesign of the way the program stores
its data structures on disk...

...so after all of that, there is no "backporting a feature",
but there is "writing new code in the old codebase that is,
to some extent, inspired by the way the same feature was
implemented in the new codebase", so pretty much "implementing
a new feature in the old codebase"?

G'luck,
Peter

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